KYIV -- Activists for transgender rights were forced to disband a demonstration in Kyiv on November 18 after counterdemonstrators assaulted several protesters and attacked a Canadian journalist trying to cover the event. The legally sanctioned…

A new message popped onto Blair's screen from a friend who helped with his website. “What viral insanity should we spread this morning?” the friend asked. “The more extreme we become, the more people believe it,” Blair…

The facial recognition cameras that track Muslims coming in and out of hundreds mosques in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang owe a debt to American innovation: their computer chips were designed in Silicon Valley. The maker of the cameras…

Before there was a spark, there was the wind. On the morning of Nov. 8, as the sun rose over the isolated mountains in the Sierra Nevada, gale-force winds tore through the canyon. A fire outpost on the Feather River recorded blasts of 52 mph…

The West was sure the Chinese approach would not work. It just had to wait. It's still waiting. In the uncertain years after Mao's death, long before China became an industrial juggernaut, before the Communist Party went on a winning streak that…